Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Enrolment in a Phase I trial of a new investigational universal influenza vaccine candidate has begun at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, US. An ideal universal influenza vaccine could be taken less frequently than once a year and protect against multiple strains of influenza virus.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Replicate Bioscience has dosed the first participant in a Phase I trial of its RBI-4000 vaccine for the prevention of rabies. Rabies, RBI-4000 and the Phase I trial Rabies remains a public health threat in several geographical regions and is designated an NIAID Priority Pathogen.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Peer-reviewed / Randomised Controlled Trial / People Randomised, phase 2 trial of COVID-19 booster vaccines finds seven increase immunity when given 10-12 weeks after two doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca, and six increase immunity following two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech. UK trial involving 2,878 adults […].

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pharmaphorum

JULY 6, 2021

A peptide vaccine developed by Australia’s Imugene has reduced tumour size in around half of patients with HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer in a phase 2 trial. The post Imugene HER2 vaccine hits target in stomach cancer trial appeared first on.

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BioSpace

AUGUST 13, 2020

A COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm triggered antibody-based immune responses in early and mid-stage trials.

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 30, 2021

Just a few months after starting clinical trials of its nasal spray vaccine for COVID-19, US biotech Altimmune is abandoning the project, saying that it generated weaker than expected immune responses in a phase 1 trial. .

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NY Times

MAY 11, 2022

Antibody levels rose in the children who received it, suggesting the vaccine protects against infection. But the data were gathered before the arrival of Omicron.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 16, 2021

The study assessed cynomolgus macaques vaccinated with 12µg of either the first or second-generation vaccine candidate. Higher antibody neutralizing capacity was observed with CV2CoV across all selected variants, including the Beta, Delta and Lambda variants.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Replicate Bioscience has shared positive results from the Phase I trial of RBI-4000, its srRNA-based rabies vaccine. In this clinical trial, evaluating safety and immunogenicity of RBI-4000 , participants received one or two doses of srRNA vaccine at low doses (0.1mcg, 1mcg or 10mcg).

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 13, 2022

Preliminary data from an ongoing trial of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria has shown that a booster dose stimulates an increase in antibodies against Omicron, as well as other variants of the virus, including Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Gamma. billion doses administered. billion doses administered.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 11, 2022

An intranasal formulation of AstraZeneca’s widely-used COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria has failed at the first hurdle, after results from a phase 1 trial found it was unable to stimulate a strong immune response to the virus. Other efforts to develop a nasally-delivered COVID-19 vaccine have met with greater success.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 8, 2023

Gritstone bio has reported interim results from an ongoing Phase 1 study evaluating the company’s self-amplifying mRNA (samRNA) vaccine as a boost against Covid-19 (CORAL-BOOST). The Phase I CORAL-BOOST dose-escalation trial (NCT05148962) evaluated Gritstone’s samRNA candidate (GRT-R910) in previously vaccinated healthy older adults.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 3, 2023

A monoclonal antibody to prevent Covid-19 in vulnerable patients, AZD3152, has entered clinical trials less than 12 months after discovery. . The commencement of the trial triggers a $5 million milestone payment to RQ Bio and will enable the company to execute its four scientific programmes focused on viral diseases. .

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 31, 2023

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended HIPRA’s Covid-19 vaccine , Bimervax, as a Covid-19 booster. Available to people ages 16 years and above who have been vaccinated with a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine, EMA’s Human Medicines Committee concluded the vaccine is ready for marketing authorization in the EU, on 30 March.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Canadian biopharmaceutical company Medicago has announced that its investigational COVID-19 vaccine generated “significant antibody and cellular immune responses” after two doses in all subjects in an early-stage clinical trial. microgram, 7.5-microgram Martin Berman-Gorvine. Source link.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The first patients are now being treated as part of a first-in-human trial of a vaccine, administered as a nasal spray, that aims to slow down the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Meanwhile researchers in Japan are also running preclinical studies of an intranasal tau vaccine.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 15, 2021

J&J has announced early trial results that suggest its single-shot coronavirus vaccine provides a sustained response against the virus ahead of a phase 3 trial readout due later this month. These neutralising antibodies remained stable through day 71, currently the latest timepoint available in this ongoing study.

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BioSpace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The company posted an interim analysis of its Phase I/IIa trial that showed a single dose of JNJ-78436735 induced a strong neutralizing antibody response in nearly all participants and was well-tolerated.

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Scienmag

MARCH 24, 2021

Department of Defense When clinical trials were conducted to determine the immunogenicity — the ability to elicit an immune response — for the first two vaccines marshaled against SARS-CoV-2the virus that causes COVID-19, one group was not among those included: people who have received solid organ […].

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XTalks

MAY 7, 2021

As Novavax awaits emergency use authorization (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine NVX-CoV2373, the company shared new data this week on the vaccine’s efficacy against the South African B.1.351 These results came from data from Novavax’s Phase III UK trial where B.1.117

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Illustration of antibodies attacking the coronavirus. A new antibody treatment is to be trialled on Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals. Monoclonal antibodies, which are potent, laboratory-made antibodies, will be given to about 2,000 people to see if they are effective against coronavirus. What are monoclonal antibodies?

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 18, 2022

New Zealand’s Medsafe has granted expanded provisional approval for Novavax ’s protein-based Covid-19 vaccine Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373) as a heterologous and homologous booster dose in adults aged 18 years and above. The booster vaccine is indicated for active immunisation for the prevention of Covid-19 in people of this age group.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 27, 2020

Moderna has said that its coronavirus vaccine stimulated an immune response in older people in phase 1 trials, suggesting that the jab is effective in the age groups most susceptible to COVID-19. These antibody levels were also higher than those typically seen in people recovering from the virus, the company said.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Moderna revealed the first interim results from a small, Phase I study of its mRNA-based influenza vaccine, which showed that the vaccine had no significant safety concerns and elicited immune responses against four strains of the influenza virus. Antibody levels against the A strains were higher than the B subtypes.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 27, 2023

The first subjects have been dosed in a Phase I clinical trial of VXX-401, an investigational vaccine designed to lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, a known factor in heart disease. We’re excited to get this first-in-human trial of VXX-401 started.

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Drug Discovery World

OCTOBER 27, 2023

HB-400, a novel arenaviral therapeutic vaccine developed by HOOKIPA Pharma and Gilead Sciences, has been shown to generate robust T cell responses specific to hepatitis B virus with high antibody levels in a preclinical setting. A Phase I clinical trial to evaluate the safety and tolerability of HB‑400 in humans is ongoing.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In this article, Ben Hargreaves looks into the promise of cancer vaccines and how this treatment modality may offer advantages over existing immunotherapies in the oncology sector. One area that is gathering increasing levels of interest is the development of cancer vaccines. A broad front.

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Advarra

JANUARY 11, 2024

While mRNA usage has played several roles in clinical research , oncology researchers in particular are eager to explore the possibilities of mRNA-based cancer vaccines. The mRNA constructs used in COVID-19 vaccines, for example, direct cells to produce a version of the “spike” protein studding the surface of SARS-CoV-2.

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Scienmag

JUNE 28, 2021

Phase 1/2 clinical trial of CoronaVac in 550 children and adolescents aged 3-17 years in China suggests two doses of the vaccine are safe and generate a strong antibody response.

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World of DTC Marketing

APRIL 11, 2021

QUICK THOUGHT: People believe the COVID-19 vaccine was developed in less than a year but that’s not true. Based on the virus a number of vaccines targeting the spike protein were designed, tested in animal models and found to be quite promising against SARS and other coronavirus illnesses like Middle East respiratory syndrome.

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Update (November 11, 2020): Quebec-based biopharmaceutical company Medicago has announced positive results from a Phase I trial of its candidate plant-derived vaccine. Interim results of the trial show that all participants developed an antibody response after two doses of the COVID-19 adjuvanted vaccine candidate.

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XTalks

APRIL 26, 2021

After years of disappointing malaria vaccine trials, a malaria shot developed by researchers at the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford has demonstrated an unprecedentedly high efficacy of 77 percent, and may be the magic bullet the world has been waiting for against the deadly disease.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Scientists in the US say they have developed an mRNA-based vaccine that encompasses all 20 known subtypes of influenza that could form the basis of a future universal jab. The goals of the programme are also similar to those in COVID vaccine development.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Covid-19 booster candidate UB-612 has achieved its immunogenicity endpoints in a head-to-head trial against three vaccine platforms: mRNA (Pfizer-BioNTech’s BNT162b2), adenovirus vector (AstraZeneca’s ChAdOx1-S), and inactivated virus (Sinopharm’s BIBP).

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XTalks

JUNE 18, 2021

Despite increasing vaccinations, the need for COVID-19 treatments has not gone away, particularly in light of vaccine shortages and rising case numbers in some countries around the world. It is the first trial to demonstrate that any antibody treatment could improve survival in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 27, 2022

Pfizer and BioNTech have started a mid-stage trial of a new version of the COVID-19 vaccine based on a version of the spike protein that they hope will offer greater and broader protection against SARS-CoV-2 variants. Clinical data show strong neutralising antibody responses against Omicron BA.1, 1 subvariant of Omicron.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 27, 2020

Moderna has announced that its coronavirus vaccine candidate has shown promise in generating an immune response in elderly patients in an early-stage clinical trial. . Each patient was given two 100 microgram doses of the vaccine 28 days apart. The company is set to charge between $32 and $37 per dose.

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